Comments on: Video Games, The Future, and The Pressure to Plan http://www.theguiltyparent.com/2009/08/video-games-the-future-and-the-pressure-to-plan/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Erica Mueller http://www.theguiltyparent.com/2009/08/video-games-the-future-and-the-pressure-to-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-1310 Erica Mueller Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:51:41 +0000 http://www.theguiltyparent.com/?p=918#comment-1310 My mother in-law, who is a teacher (she taught in public schools for years) and who also home schooled her sons who are now amazing men, each with their own careers and business owners at that, would say... Build the bonds. Teach your child to love to learn. It doesn't matter what, so long as it's something they're interested in, and they learn to love knowledge. Because no matter what they end up doing after graduation, if you have instilled the love of learning, they will be successful. In this world of conveyor belt education, where schools are graduating a product ready to plug into the next opening at McDonnald's, it's important that parents take the time to find their children's interests and foster them. Who knows, your 11 yr old could be the next famous game engineer. But, don't get discouraged if his interest shifts in 6 months. Go with the flow, and no matter what he wants to learn more about, encourage and facilitate that interest! .-= Erica Mueller´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EricaMuellerOnline/~3/LxIvQOuvkqQ/" rel="nofollow">I could never say it enough…</a> =-. My mother in-law, who is a teacher (she taught in public schools for years) and who also home schooled her sons who are now amazing men, each with their own careers and business owners at that, would say…

Build the bonds. Teach your child to love to learn. It doesn’t matter what, so long as it’s something they’re interested in, and they learn to love knowledge. Because no matter what they end up doing after graduation, if you have instilled the love of learning, they will be successful.

In this world of conveyor belt education, where schools are graduating a product ready to plug into the next opening at McDonnald’s, it’s important that parents take the time to find their children’s interests and foster them.

Who knows, your 11 yr old could be the next famous game engineer. But, don’t get discouraged if his interest shifts in 6 months. Go with the flow, and no matter what he wants to learn more about, encourage and facilitate that interest!
.-= Erica Mueller´s last blog ..I could never say it enough… =-.

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